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- Consumer SaaS: ~55% is GOOD, ~80% is GREAT
from What is good retention by Lenny Rachitsky
- Importantly, Apple likely cannot create a similar model. Apple isn’t a big interoperability fan.
from Minimally Extractive Meta by Packy McCormick
- Through this lens, our transition to the metaverse becomes a cultural shift as a consequence of technology and connectedness, rather than the result of some specific technological innovation that then begets a cultural shift.
from Spheres of Self: Performativity and Parasociality in the Metaverse by Koji
- The internet was the enabler of large-scale human coordination. DAO tools — built on web3 — now give us the ability to design and manage incentives to maintain positive-sum relationships between stakeholders, keeping them aligned on shared goals as the product or community grows.
from Organization Legos: The State of DAO Tooling by Nichanan Kesonpat
Slot machines leverage this psychological weakness to incredible effect. The unpredictability of payout makes it harder to stop. Social media does the same. Posting to Twitter might yield a big social payoff, in the form of likes, retweets, and replies. Or it might yield no reward at all. Never knowing the outcome makes it harder to stop pulling t
... See morefrom The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher by Max Fisher
- If they become nations, that means the in-game currency (like SLP in Axie) would be able to be used outside of the game to pay for rent, groceries, and other real world expenses, without the need for a currency exchange.While the latter option may sound far-fetched, we’re already seeing our own scholars utilize SLP in their local regions for real w... See more
from Attention Required! | Cloudflare by Starship Guild
- The implications of this are vast. Sure, you may follow your friends on both, but on Twitter you will also follow news breakers, analysts, insightful anons, joke tellers, and shit posters. The goal is to mainline information, and Twitter’s speed and information density are unparalleled by anything in the world. On Instagram, though, you might follo... See more
from Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? by stratechery.com
- Web Infrastructure — A different type of critical infrastructure, web infrastructure, is also increasingly important. For example, how can we ensure the right people are on the Zoom call and security hasn’t been compromised? In the past weeks, we’ve seen the rise of “ZoomBombs” or disruptive screensharing in Zoom video chats, and the U.S. Cybersecu... See more
from Venture Investing in the Age of the Coronavirus by Grace Isford
- Creators and brands need to promote and sell products or services. Right now they pay employees or an agency to perform this function. The employees or agencies may not be users, know what motivations drive the users or have organic relationships with users. They make up for this by spending money on market research and “testing” the market. It’s p... See more
from Winning Models for the Creator Economy by Matt Lockyer